Home Review

I'll keep this short. This movie just came out in my country today, so chances are you might have already seen it in your local cinema.

I was just looking forward to going to the movies. I needed to get out. So I went to see this since it looked funny from the trailers. Rotten Tomatoes didn't give Home a very good rating, but I went to see it anyway since it looked better than Jupiter Ascending.

And I'm kind of glad I went to see it. Overall I enjoyed the movie and it wasn't nearly as bad as the reviews I had read made it out to be. Maybe because I didn't go in with high expectations. But I do admire that the movie is 94 minutes long. I'm glad somebody is bringing the 90 minute film back. These days most movies are about 2 hours long. 3 hours if it's by Peter Jackson.

However I must warn you Home isn't perfect. There were a couple of heart-tugging moments that resonated with me (due to my particular issues) and made me reminisce about my own isolated times in school. I could feel the pain of Oh, the clumsy outcast alien, when nobody wanted to be around him in the beginning. Not so much when he became a fugitive though. I wouldn't rank the movie up there with the likes of Rise of the Guardians or How to Train Your Dragon. It had a few funny moments, but it wasn't as funny as the early Shrek movies. Most of the movie is spent in the flying car from the trailer with the main characters joking around on a road trip (with moments that you may remember from your own childhood road trips).

While it was a fun movie, and worth seeing just once (probably wouldn't see it again), it wasn't spectacular. It didn't seem to grab me and hold me in suspense like Wreck it Ralph did. The whole time it felt like it was made for a younger audience than the usual Dreamworks target market. (Strange, that's kind of how I felt about the Penguins of Madagascar movie. Is this a new direction Dreamworks is headed in? I'm not sure if I like it).